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1597.  Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. xlvi. 217. Eccho, an amiable Nymph, long amorous of him, But louing, vnbeloued.

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1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. § 101. If it had not concerned a person notoriously unbeloved, and so the more unpitied.

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1697.  Dryden, Æneid, I. 536. Whoe’er you are—not unbeloved by Heaven …—Have courage.

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1706.  Watts, Horæ Lyr., I. 113. Wild and wand’ring all alone, Unbeloved and unknown.

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1815.  Shelley, Summer Evening, 5. Silence and Twilight, unbeloved of men.

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1890.  Baker, Wild Beasts, I. 230. A tiger or some unbeloved animal was before them.

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  absol.  1820.  Lamb (title), The Unbeloved.

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